Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Yehuda Berg
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
Camilla Lackberg
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.
Elena Ferrante
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We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
Jeremy Irons
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Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.
Peter Storey
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Your negative thoughts corrupt your mind and gradually pollute your emotions, behavior, and attitude.
Benjamin Smith
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
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Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina Tsvetaeva